Stuart Murphy, the Sky1 controller, spoke today of the frustration of working for his former employer the BBC, which was "90% meetings, 10% action".

Murphy, the former BBC3 controller who took charge of the BSkyB-owned channel last year, said he felt liberated working for the satellite broadcaster, which "just gets on with it".

"At Sky it's 90% action, 10% thinking. Sky just gets on with it. It makes its plans in a confidential way inisde the building and it just doesn't do politics," Murphy said in a session at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.

"At the BBC its 90% meetings, 10% action. After running BBC Choice, BBC3 and UK Play it frustrated me."

"Often the BBC does good speech, it doesn't do good action. Those of us working at Sky feel liberated."

Murphy also revealed that Sky1 is developing a drama with Shameless creator Paul Abbott, called Hit and Miss.

"It's about a loving family – like The Sopranos or Shameless. It's about love but it has a very dark skin," he said.

Murphy also said Sky1 was likely to do a second series of fly-on-the-wall documentary series Pineapple Studios.

He added that he was looking to commission a panel show and comedy sketch shows.

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